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Ismaila Diallo

San Jose State University, Pennsylvania State University, Cheikh Anta Diop University, University of California, Los Angeles

Research areas: Environmental Science · Global and Planetary Change · Climate variability and models · Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations · Hydrology and Drought Analysis

ORCID iD 0000-0003-1209-4107
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Ismaila is an Earth System scientist whose research centers on predicting and understanding the physical relationship between natural climate variability, extreme weather events, and climate change within the coupled Earth system. He is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science in the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at San José State University (SJSU). He serves as Associate Editor for "Earth Systems and Environment" and is member of the Editorial board for "Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics". He holds a BSc degree in Physics and Chemistry and Ph.D degree in Climate and Climatic Impacts from Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal. He has held Long-term visiting scientist, Postdoctoral fellow, Staff Research Associate, and Research faculty (Assistant Research Professor) positions at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA), and The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State, PSU), prior to joining SJSU in 2024. The primary goal of his research is to improve our understanding of monsoon systems and precipitation variability in a changing climate to improve predictability of hydro-climatological changes in response to anthropogenic warming, but also to environmental changes. He also conducts research on land surface – atmosphere coupling processes and hydrometeorological prediction, focusing on the impact of land-surface processes on the predictability of regional climate and global climate variability and anomalies, with a particular emphasis on monsoon systems, and the physical mechanism involved. His areas of active research include West Africa, Continental U. S., Central Africa, Pan-Africa, East Asia, and home in Senegal. To address his research questions, his work relies on theory, analysis of large-scale observational data as well as design and perform a suite of high-resolution numerical climate model simulations, from Regional Climate Models (e.g., WRF-ARW, WRF-NMM and RegCM) to Earth System Models (e.g., CFSv2, E3SM, and CESM2).

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